From the intelligence tower to the tower of joy : the story of Havran in the former iron curtain buffer zone

• Authors: Jiří Woitsch , Karolína Pauknerová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is a case study of a former military intelligence tower Havran located in Western Bohemia borderland in former Iron Curtain buffer zone. It is focused especially on process of shifting from a military installation, through a ruin, towards a lookout tower and an Iron Curtain memorial. The study is focused on changes of physical structures of the tower and content of the exhibition. The goals are to present an analysis of forming of special type of heritage, to review and discuss processes of the negotiating of the meaning of the landscape, demonstrated on the site with a tower. As methods we used historical archive research, review of internet fora and media articles as a specific data source for the change of the tower, for the exhibition currently located at the lookout tower we did basic qualitative content analysis.

Keywords

EN

Czech Republic; Havran tower; Iron Curtain; Cold War; military object; heritage; landscape

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 409-437
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jiří  Woitsch

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Karolína  Pauknerová

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic